Sled



J. J. SLEPICKA.

SLED.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 1.1921.

1,435,343, Patented Nov. 14, 1922:.

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1.]. SLEPICKA.

SLED APPLICATION FIILED JULY 1,1921.

Patented Nov. 14, 1922 2 SHEETSSHEET 2.

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SLED.

Application filed July 1, 1921. Serial No. 481,903;

means whereby the sled can be steered readily.

Another object is to provide a sled which is durable in construction and of neat ap pearance.

W 1th the fore oing and other ObJBCtS .111

view which will appear as the description proceeds, the invention resides in the combination and arrangement of parts and in the details of construction hereinafter described and claimed, it being understood that, within the scope of what is claimed, changes in the precise embodiment of the invention shown can be made without de aartin from the spirit of the invention.

In the accompanying drawings the preferred form of the invention has been shown In said drawings Figure 1 is a plan view of the sled.

Figure 2 is a side elevation thereof.

Figure 3 is a transverse section through one of the shock absorbers and adjacent parts.

Figure 4 is an enlarged section on line 4-4, Figure 3.

Figure 5 is a rear elevation.

Figure 6 is a plan view of the steering head. Referring to the figures by characters of reference 1 desi nates runners preferably formed of T-strips the forward ends of which are upturned as shown at 2. On these runners are mounted substantially Ushaped bolsters or supports 3 provided with inclined braces 4. The bolsters are connected at their sides by longitudinal strips 6 and these in turn are reenforced by braces 7 connected to the strips and to the runners. Each of the bolsters is preferably channeled longitudinally as shown at- 8, thus to provide a longitudinal rcenforcing rib 9.

Mounted on each bolster adjacent each side thereof is a yoke lOwhich straddles the bolster and is movable vertically relative thereto. Each yoke also straddles a cushion 11' preferably of rubber which rests on the bolster and the various parts serve to sup port a board l2yconstituting the body of the sled. This board, the yoke 10, the cushions 11, and the bolster are held assembled by a bolt 13 extending therethrough and engaged by a retaining nutll. This bolt is slidable within an opening 15 formed in the bolster.

Thus it will be seen that the support 12 is free to move slightly relative to the bolster, the rubber cushions or springs 11 serving to absorb shocks andthe yokes 10' constituting means for holding the board against longitudinal shifting relative to the bolsters. In other words these yokes constitute guides which allow the board 12 to move vertically to a limited extent relative to the bolsters I but prevent said boardv from shifting, backwardly or forwardly.

Secured to and extending forwardly of the center of the board 12 is a fiat metal loop 16 in which is mounted a steering bar 17 having terminal grips. or handles 18. This bar is pivotallyattached to the loop at its center, as shown at 19. A T-shaped plate or steering head 20 is arranged under the loop and is mounted on the pivot 19, the laterally extending wings 21 of this steering plate. being fastened to the bar 17 while/the forwardly extending arm or tongue 22 of the plate is connected to the frontend portions of the runners by means of links23.

It to be understood that the runners" are flexible to a limited extent and, therefore, when the-bar 17 is swung about its pivot the plate 20 will'be moved therewith so as to cause the tongue 22 to swing to. the right or to the left. Consequently the tongue will thrust or pull'through the links 23 upon the respective forward portions of the runners so as to flex the runners laterally.

For the purpose of reenforcing the sled longitudinally a side strip or brace 24 can be secured at its rear end to the top of the rear bolster 3 and at its forward end to the loop 16, as shown in Figure 2.

What is claimed is I In a sled the combination with runners and bolsterssecured thereon, of a body, rubber springs interposed between the body and bolsters, bolts connecting the body and bolsters and extending through the springs to permit up and down movement of the In testimony that I claim the foregoing body relative to the bolsteraancl yokes seas my own, I have hereto affixed my signaourecl to the body by said bolts and straclture in the presence of two Witnesses.

dling the rubber springs and the bolsters t0 JOHN JOSEPH SLEPIGKA. hold the body against longitudinal move- Witnesses: ment relative to the bolsters and to relieve ELIZABETH HARTsUFF the bolts of transverse strain. CLARE M. HARTsUFF. 

